St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-10
THIS Is UNIQUE.
The Associated Press Man Forgets
the President and Describes
Madison.

the President and Describes
Madison.
MADISON, Wis, Oct. 9.-The presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland have remained
In their quarters at the Villas mansion
all day, resting in preparation for the
fatlgues OF another week of journeying.
1t was expected that they would go to
church this morning, and the Villas pew
In the Episcopal church was reserved
for them, but the heavy threatening
sky and the raw chilly wind fresh laden
with spray from the lakes, the mud in
the unpaved streets and the clouds of
falling leaves from every tree top was
forbidding, while the crate fires in their
parlors were very tempting. They have
seen no one except their fellow-travelers
and the members of the Villas family,
including the mother and brothers of the
postmaster general, who were invited to
family dinuer with the President and
Mrs. Cleveland at O'clock. They could
not have been freer from interruption
at the White house or at Red Top than
In Madison. A little group of a dozen
OF more individuals has been seen nearly
all day in front of the mansion. await
ing possible glimpse of them. but the
toWnSpeople for the most part have re-
Spected their wish to be left in quiet.
The house is well situated for the pur-
pose OF SecluslOn and rest, standing well
BACK from the street, and being sur
rounded by an ample stretch of green
SWard, clean-Shayed and Well-shaded.
me structure itself, though not a pre-
tentlous one, is a good specimen of the
villa of a dozen or fifteen wears ago,
square-Shouldered and wide-Spreading.
though rendered light and agreeable in
outer appearance by verandas, bay win
doWS and conservatory of flowers. The
TOWN OF MADISON
is phenomenon i'll its way. It is per-
maps the only place in all the broad
west whose Inhabitants admit that bust
ness is not blooming" and that things
are quiet. Its quietude is not that of
stagnatlon by any means, but of rest
and competency. 1t is the home of a
class OF well to do people who find
among these low rolling hills and beau
tlful fresh water lakes a choice relief
from the stir and hustle of the larger
western centers and who would not
have a ''boom" if they could. In fact.
lakes hem the place in North and
South, their shores being hardly a mile
apart. Its thirteen or fourteen thou
sand inhabitants spread themselves
over as much area as three times their
number would require in a New Eng
land town, but they are indisposed for
the most part to build closer to-
gether and would find themselves
crowded if required to do SO.
1t is a beautiful spot, its
streets opening viStaS between lofty
shade trees down to and across the cool
blue waters to the purple and yellow
ridges beyond, miles away. It shows
little other reason for existence than
the fact that it is the state capitol and
the location of the state university. It
mghtDe popular summer resort, for
its twin lakes, Mendoza and Monona,
have beauty spots upon every knoll and
projection, and the younger generation
is becoming restless, and whispering
about Organization" for the purpose of
securing change, but the time has not
yet come.
GREY SQUIRRELS,
moDstrous fellows, half as large as cats
and fully as tame, play about the
streets and even the houses, and no
urchin or dog in all the place is so lost
to sense of the proprieties of life as to
disturb them. With all this. there is
notn!ng pr0sy or commonplace about
Madison. Its state capitol, occupying
tilo illuuio Ol large open square,
which forms focus to its system of
streets, is a creditable structure
in size and architecture, and
its university buildings are command
ing in form and situation. Its inhabi-
tants are up with the times in all that
makes progressive citizens and good fell
lows. No approved modern improve
ment" long awaits market here, and
whatever contributes to make city life
comfortable is to be found in its hotels.
stores and dwellings. Its hospitality is
boundlesS, and if there lies beneath it
desire to advertise anything, one must
remain longer than the presidential
party has been here to discover the
fact. With the subsistence of last Fri
days ebullition, affairs assumed their
everyday aspect, and there is promise
that the visitors shall depart to-marrow
morning without more of demonstra-
ton than would be accorded to any
other honored guest. The special train
leaves at 9 o'clock for st. Paul. A con-
cessiOn has been made to La Crosse, at
which point the train will tarry about
twenty minutes tomorrow noon. and
the party will take carriages to see the
place and be seen by its people.